Le Quesnel, is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, on the North side of the road from Amiens to Roye, 25 kilometres South - East of Amiens. From Peronne take the N17 to Roye then the D934 to Amiens, about 12.5 kilometres. Turn right towards Caix on the D4 and go through the village. On leaving the village take a small road on the right and the cemetery is on the left about 300 metres along this road.

The village, which had been for sometime in British hands, was captured by the Germans on the 27th March, 1918, but was retaken on the following 9th August, by the 75th Canadian Infantry Battalion.

 

The cemetery once contained over 400 French and German graves, many of which have been removed; and in it are buried three soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in February and March 1917, and three from Canada who fell in August 1918. Five of these graves are on the west side of the centre path and one is near the south-east corner.